I love how the sonic screwdriver manages to move the plot along even when it's bitten in half. Bless!
I was upset with the fact that Abigail got fridged (literally!), even though it was clear from the first mention of the number on her freezer that she was going to die.
I loved the costumes! AMY/RORY ♥ Really my main complaint about the episode was just that there wasn't enough Amy or Rory. I love this TARDIS team so freaking much. It's funny, given how unimpressed I was with the idea of Matt Smith and how generally quite impressed I am with anything involving David Tennant, that I so much prefer Eleven over Ten. (But, then, Moffat!) ANYhoodle, I am going to be very, very sad when it is time for them to part ways.
Yes--Abigail's fate was pretty well determined from early on, but still. Bah humbug, as it were.
And that is kind of my main complaint as well--more Amy and Rory, please!
(My mom watched the Christmas special with me, and her only mumbled comment was, "I like the old one better." It's a mark of how much I love Matt Smith and Eleven that I was disappointed by this response. Er, and then made my mom watch "The Eleventh Hour" and "Vincent and the Doctor." I'm not sure she was convinced, but I tried my best.)
I liked it. I was prepared to cringe; so glad I was wrong about Abagail! It was nice Classic Doctor Who, very Christmasy, and very British. I'm liking Moffat's controversy free Doctor Who. The cable station guide where I live describes Doctor Who as: A low-budget cult favorite about the journeys through the universe of a time-traveling eccentric. And the show return to being that. (Well, I don't know about low-budget) Moffat has avoided the "first" and "relevancy" trap that RTD seemed to embrace in trying to making DW "current" nor is he trying over much to make Doctor seem a more accessible modern hero, and he's writing stories with both hands on the PC. Even with the shippy elements of Season 3-4 the show never for my teenage grandkids: but my youngest likes the show -- well not as much as she likes Supernatural. Me, I'm not running for the set the way I did for the Third Season, but I'm not deliberately turning away as I did with the second season. I enjoy watching the show.
Yes, I liked it too! It's not my favorite Moffat episode, but I enjoyed it (and thought the leads were adorable, as always).
I think Moffat is borrowing more overtly from fairy tales and children's stories, and RTD/the RTD era tended to borrow a lot from modern culture (news media, stories about dieting and global warming).
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I was upset with the fact that Abigail got fridged (literally!), even though it was clear from the first mention of the number on her freezer that she was going to die.
I loved the costumes! AMY/RORY ♥ Really my main complaint about the episode was just that there wasn't enough Amy or Rory. I love this TARDIS team so freaking much. It's funny, given how unimpressed I was with the idea of Matt Smith and how generally quite impressed I am with anything involving David Tennant, that I so much prefer Eleven over Ten. (But, then, Moffat!) ANYhoodle, I am going to be very, very sad when it is time for them to part ways.
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And that is kind of my main complaint as well--more Amy and Rory, please!
(My mom watched the Christmas special with me, and her only mumbled comment was, "I like the old one better." It's a mark of how much I love Matt Smith and Eleven that I was disappointed by this response. Er, and then made my mom watch "The Eleventh Hour" and "Vincent and the Doctor." I'm not sure she was convinced, but I tried my best.)
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And the show return to being that. (Well, I don't know about low-budget) Moffat has avoided the "first" and "relevancy" trap that RTD seemed to embrace in trying to making DW "current" nor is he trying over much to make Doctor seem a more accessible modern hero, and he's writing stories with both hands on the PC. Even with the shippy elements of Season 3-4 the show never for my teenage grandkids: but my youngest likes the show -- well not as much as she likes Supernatural. Me, I'm not running for the set the way I did for the Third Season, but I'm not deliberately turning away as I did with the second season. I enjoy watching the show.
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I think Moffat is borrowing more overtly from fairy tales and children's stories, and RTD/the RTD era tended to borrow a lot from modern culture (news media, stories about dieting and global warming).
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